{"id":2366,"date":"2014-12-03T06:48:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T11:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2014-12-03T06:48:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T11:48:02","slug":"seeing-perus-forests-through-the-trees-features-al-jazeera-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2366","title":{"rendered":"Seeing Peru’s forests through the trees – Features – Al Jazeera English"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seeing Peru’s forests through the trees – Features – Al Jazeera English<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Puerto Maldonado, Peru<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>In an Amazonian timber yard bordering Bolivia and Brazil, Nelson Kroll names stacks of rough-hewn hardwoods, pointing out\u00a0<\/span>shihuahuaco\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<\/span>pumaquiro\u00a0<\/em>species\u00a0freshly felled from select tracts of the Madreacre logging concession.<\/span><\/p>\n

“In this campaign we’ve cut 39,000 cubic metres of round timber, which is about one tree every two hectares,” Kroll, head of the sustainable tree farm, told Al Jazeera.<\/span><\/p>\n

But lining the floors of European and American households isn’t the private-public partnership’s only source of income. Madreacre earns up to $200,000 a year in carbon credits through emissions captured by its forest. The company gets paid to leave trees in the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n

The concession is one of more than 40 Peruvian national projects involved in the UN initiative called Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, or\u00a0REDD+<\/a><\/strong>. Set up by the\u00a0<\/span>United Nations Framework Convention<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>on Climate Change in 2005, the mechanism aims to cut emissions from deforestation in developing countries and promote sustainable forest management.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Seeing Peru’s forests through the trees – Features – Al Jazeera English. Puerto Maldonado, Peru\u00a0–\u00a0In an Amazonian timber yard bordering Bolivia and Brazil, Nelson Kroll names stacks of rough-hewn hardwoods, pointing out\u00a0shihuahuaco\u00a0and\u00a0pumaquiro\u00a0species\u00a0freshly felled from select tracts of the Madreacre logging concession. “In this campaign we’ve cut 39,000 cubic metres of round timber, which is about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[977,1596,1595,1593,1594],"class_list":["post-2366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-amazon","tag-deforestation","tag-logging","tag-peru","tag-sustainable-forestry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions\/2367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}